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Jobs with changing work schedules or work locations in 2017
February 01, 2018
Some jobs require workers to adapt to changes in their work schedule or location. Almost half of all jobs (47.6 percent) have work schedules that vary from a regular pattern. In nearly a quarter (23.0 percent) of jobs, the work location changes more than four times per year. About three-quarters of home health aides and police patrol officers have to adapt to changing work schedules. Large shares of home health aides and police patrol officers also must change their work location more than four times per year.
Percent of jobs in selected occupations that require workers to change work schedules or change work locations more than 4 times per year, 2017
Occupation
Work schedule changes
Work location changes more than 4 times per year
Home health aides
75%
69%
Police patrol officers
74
82
Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators
70
62
Registered nurses
65
14
Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers
65
79
Child, family, and school social workers
65
69
Retail salespersons
65
7
Lawyers
63
62
Personal care aides
62
54
Mental health counselors
61
67
Construction carpenters
61
78
Municipal firefighters
58
82
Electricians
56
77
Construction laborers
55
88
Mental health and substance abuse social workers
54
71
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators
53
83
Driver/sales workers
51
84
Auditors
48
62
Most registered nurses and retail salespersons have a work schedule that changes (about 65 percent for both). Not as many workers in these occupations have to adjust to another work location; only 14 percent of registered nurses and 7 percent of retail salespersons change work locations more than four times per year.
United States Department of Labor
